We have an amazing hop to close out the month of spooky reads! Over 300 blogs are participating and we're all linked up to give you an awesome hop from one blog to another. Tons of prizes are available including some great reads so be sure to visit us from now until the 31st of the month!

I'm holding 2 great giveaways for you guys today so we'll have not 1 but 2 winners! Woo!

Giveaway #1

$30
gift certificate to buy books. (Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.com, The Book Depository or
any other online retailer of your choice that sells books and has a way
for me to send you a $30 online gift certificate).

Giveaway #2

A Big Ol' Box of Books!

One of my fave vampire related and spooky reads along with some more Julie Kagawa goodness!

This is the book that got me hooked on author Tanith Lee. :-)

The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories
is the definitive collection of short tales of those deadly
bloodsuckers. Editor Alan Ryan really captured a wide range of talents
here, from Bram Stoker to Robert Bloch to Tanith Lee -- more than 30
stories of bloody good fun. Usually it's considered bad form for an
editor to include one of his own stories, but this book proves to be the
exception to the rule -- Ryan's "Following the Way" is one of the best
vampire short stories ever written. It's one of many masterpieces in
this must-have volume.

Contents:"Fragment of a Novel" by George Gordon, Lord Byron "The Vampyre" by John Polidori "Varney the Vampyre, or, the Feast of Blood" [excerpt] by James Malcolm Rymer "The Mysterious Stranger" by Anonymous"Carmilla" by Sheridan Le Fanu"Good Lady Ducayne" by Mary Elizabeth Braddon "Dracula's Guest" by Bram Stoker "Luella Miller" by Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman "For the Blood is The Life" by F. Marion Crawford "The Transfer" by Algernon Blackwood "The Room in the Tower" by E.F. Benson "An Episode of Cathedral History" by M.R. James "A Rendevous in Averoigne" by Clark Ashton Smith "Shambleau" by C.L. Moore "Revelations in Black" by Carl Jacobi "School for the Unspeakable" by Manly Wade Wellman "Drifting Snow" by August Derleth "Over the River" by P. Schuyler Miller "The Girl with the Hungry Eyes" by Fritz Leiber "The Mindworm" by C.M. Kornbluth "Drink My Blood" by Richard Matheson "Place of Meeting" by Charles Beaumont "The Living Dead" by Robert Bloch "Pages from a Young Girl's Journal" by Robert Aikman "The Werewolf and the Vampire" by R. Chetwynd-Hayes "Love-Starved" by Charles L. Grant "Cabin 33" by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro "Unicorn Tapestry" by Suzy McKee Charnas "Following the Way" by Alan Ryan "The Sunshine Club" by Ramsey Campbell "The Men & Women of Rivendale" by Steve Rasnic Tem "Bite-Me-Not, or, Fleur de Feu" by Tanith Lee

Also includes short appendices of vampire novels and movies.

The Lost Prince by Julie Kagawa

Don't look at Them. Never let Them know you can see Them.

That is Ethan Chase's unbreakable
rule. Until the fey he avoids at all costs—including his
reputation—begin to disappear, and Ethan is attacked. Now he must change
the rules to protect his family. To save a girl he never thought he'd
dare to fall for.

Ethan thought he had protected
himself from his older sister's world—the land of Faery. His previous
time in the Iron Realm left him with nothing but fear and disgust for
the world Meghan Chase has made her home, a land of myth and talking
cats, of magic and seductive enemies. But when destiny comes for Ethan,
there is no escape from a danger long, long forgotten.

The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa

In a future world, vampires reign. Humans are blood cattle. And one girl will search for the key to save humanity.

Allison Sekemoto survives in the
Fringe, the outermost circle of a vampire city. By day, she and her crew
scavenge for food. By night, any one of them could be eaten.

Some days, all that drives Allie is her hatred of them.
The vampires who keep humans as blood cattle. Until the night Allie
herself is attacked—and given the ultimate choice. Die or become one of
the monsters.

Faced with her own mortality,
Allie becomes what she despises most. To survive, she must learn the
rules of being immortal, including the most important: go long enough
without human blood, and you will go mad.

Then Allie is forced to flee into
the unknown, outside her city walls. There she joins a ragged band of
humans who are seeking a legend—a possible cure to the disease that
killed off most of humankind and created the rabids, the mindless
creatures who threaten humans and vampires alike.

But it isn't easy to pass for
human. Especially not around Zeke, who might see past the monster inside
her. And Allie soon must decide what—and who—is worth dying for.

I'm also tossing in my own Ashen Twilight series (first 2 books).

For centuries, a group of immortals consisting of Nightwalkers, Lycans and Shifter Elves have lived under mortal eyes. Banning together for safety and survival, they created the group of houses lead by a select group of Patriarchs and Regents. Outside of the mortal realm lives the Aziza fairies. A benevolent race of immortals whose main job is to assist human hunters on their quests. Much of what they know of humans are from their studies and what they know of other immortals are from books about fairytales and mythology.

The world of the mortal realm and the fairy realm are about to collide.

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To enter giveaway please leave a comment with your email addy telling me your favorite vampire story/book and which giveaway you would like to enter!

OMG thank you for this huge giveaway! *_*Both the prizes are awesome but I'd prefere to win Giveaway #01 :PI looove vampire books... I think my favorite series is the Black Dagger Brotherhood by J.R. Ward ^_^

My favourite vampire series is The Dark Secrets Series, it is a relatively unknown series in the US but I think it's the best!!Giveaway #1 please and thanks for the giveaway.Ashleyasgwilli at gmail dot com

Well pretty much everything I read is about vampires so I have a lot of favorites. I loved the Black Dagger Brotherhood, Chicagoland Vampires, Morganville Vampires and a lot more. Thanks for the great giveaway and for making it international!

My favorite Vampire story is currently The Vampire Diaries and I would like to be entered into giveaway #2 please.

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Thanks so much for being a part of this hop. It is my third and by far my most favorite! Your page is A Writer's Dream, well your prizes are A Reader's Dream! Thanks so much. You rock!Best wishes,Marlenacharmedpoms(at)yahoo(dot)com

My favorite is interview with vampire by Anne Rice.I'd like to enter both giveaways if the second one is open internationally.I followed your blog-gfc name:teddy.I also sent you a friend request on GR:name-TeodoraI followed you on twitter:@gossipbgAnd i friended you on fb-Teodora Atanasovae-mail:tedi_7o(at)abv(dot)bg

Im International so I think #1 would be better. Thanks for the chance. My favourite Vampire book is The Crusade series.+1 Follow the Blog - Network Blog as Natalie Cleary+1 Be or become a friend on Goodreads - nat cleary+1 Follow on Twitter - @natcleary+1 Friend on Facebook - Natalie Cleary

Wow, thank you for the awesome giveaway! Both sound great, but I don't know if the second one is international, so I'll just stick with Giveaway #1. My favourite is probably Dracula, but there are soo many I love!

I don't read many vampire books, the main one that I can think of that I really enjoyed and would call a favorite was actually a Manga (Japanese comic book) called Millennium Snow (AKA: Sennen no Yuki). I also enjoyed the Hex Hall series and it had a vampire as a main character.

one of my favorite vampire stories would have to be the dark series by Christine Feehan. I'd love to be entered to win prize #1 since I have too many books already. Thanks for being a part of the hop. I hope that you have a happy Halloween!jessangil at gmail dot com

It isn`t really a vampire book but it has them in it- City of Bones. I really like Casandra Clare`s described vamps, they were written pretty creatively.Optional Extra Entries:+1 Follow this Blog- the_bosix GFC+1 Be or become my friend on Goodreads- Maija Steinbrika+1 Follow me on Twitter+1 Friend me on Facebook- Maija Steinbrika

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